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"The work goes on," replied Confucius, "and no man knoweth the cause. How then shall he know the end, or the beginning? There is nothing left to us but to wait."
Source Chuang Tzu, chapter 20, §10 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Chuang Tzu, Confucius explains that all beings constantly change form according to laws beyond us: rather than wanting to know everything about what comes next, it is a matter of welcoming what comes with uprightness and trust. Today, faced with an uncertainty, simply do the next right thing, and let the rest come in its own time.
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